CEC awards $23 million for biomass-based power projects

In California, the state’s energy commission has awarded up to $23 million in grants for the following categories:

Group 1: AR&D: Efficient, Sustainable and Lower

-Cost Bioenergy: Innovations to Improve Woody Biomass-to-Electricity Systems ($5,000,000)

• Group 2: TD&D: Demonstrate and Evaluate Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Woody Biomass-to-Electricity Systems

($10,000,000)

• Group 3: TD&D: Demonstrate and Evaluate Environmentally and Economically Sustainable Food Waste Biomass-to-Electricity Systems ($8,000,000)

The Energy Commission received 57 abstracts by the due date of September 8, 2016. Twenty-eight abstracts passed phase 1 screening and the Energy Commission received a total of 23 phase 2 proposals by the due date of December 21, 2016.